From Yokohama to Tokyo in 1958 横浜から東京まで
An early film from Japan’s Showa period. Hardly any English lettering seen. A viewer adds: The video starts with apparently a U.S. military housing complex somewhere in Kanagawa Prefecture with views of Mount Fuji (0:28) followed by a train ride (1:07) into central Tokyo, views of Asakusa shopping street (2:03) and Asakusa Kannon temple complex (3:25), images of the Kabuki-za kabuki theatre in Ginza (5:30) and video images of the Ginza crossing area with the Montana pachinko parlor (6:22) and restaurant window displays (6:48) with plastic food, including sukiyaki for only 200 yen! Another viewer added: starts with JR line headind down from Tokyo to Yokohama yamanote line , back to Asakusa sensoji temple, Nakamise, to Yokohama china town , back to Asakusa, Ginza line entrance and bridge to higashi ginza Kabukiza,
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